On Saturday, 3 June 2017 at 19:57:36 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling
wrote:
It's a mistake that remains tolerated, despite the problem
being known and having an associated issue, because the
dlang/installer scripts work around it, meaning the fundamental
problem never gets fixed.
I understand the problem, but there's only so much Martin can do
in his free time.
So I'm not sure how necessary it is.
The problem here is that anyone downstream wanting to build or
package from source has to work around this issue, that without
manual intervention, the version information of the compiler
will be incorrect.
Yep, but it's just a one-liner, right?
https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/dmd#n32
If that's not fixed in how dmd itself is managed (NOT the
dlang/installer scripts), this will continue to be an
unnecessary burden on downstream packagers.
Well, as said before _until_ there's no one volunteering to do
this, it won't happen.
FWIW in the past sometimes even bumping the major version has
been forgotten:
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/commits/master/VERSION
I very much appreciate your pointing me to material that can
help me create a workaround. But I'd feel a lot better about
implementing such a workaround if I felt sure that there was a
clear understanding of why it matters to fix this properly in
dmd itself.
I pointed you to the release scripts, because these are the spots
where an addition to automatically update the VERSION file could
be inserted ;-)
For example, the PRs merging stable <-> master are generated from
these scripts as well.
